St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-13
FAIR LOVERS OF ART.
An Art Class That Is Studying By Its
Own Methods.
FOURTEEN YOUNG LADIES
Who Have Made Their Own Workshop
a Model Hired MALTA Skeleton
Wanted.
FOURTEEN YOUNG LADII

There is the nucleus of school OF
artists up in little room that has been
made for the purpose in the West Pub
fishing company's building on Third
street. 1t is very charming nucleus,
too, made up OF fourteen young ladies
who are studying art ON their own hook
and in their own style.
at is what used to be Prof. Flagg's
class" said one of the young ladies to a
GLOBE man, who went up there the
other afternoon. There is no one to
manage it, but we girls wanted TO keep
on studying and so we took the matter
into our own hands. There are four
teen of us who take lessons. and have
this for our workshop. Prof. Volk
comes down from Minneapolis two days
in the week and gives us a few
points, but it would be hardly
correct to say that he is our
teacher. or that we are his class" The
young lady explained that in order to
make it not too heavy a burden on the
pOcketb0OkS of the class, three more
girls would be desirable acquisition,
and she said they had about decided TO
limit the class to seventeen members.
Possibly they would take twenty, if
there were 50 many that wanted to come
i'll. The young ladies have been work
ing fer month. and are justly some
what proud of the showing they have
made up to date. The little room where
they work has been fitted up by them
selves. They hung the cambria draper
les that shade the windows and form
backgrounds for dozen or more casts,
which are placed about the room, and
they personally supervise the manufac-
turing of a dozen or more easelS that
are in use some hours each day. "And
we furnish our own chairs and every
thing that's here" said the young lady.
THE ROOMS ARE COSY,
and a large window running almost
along one side of the room makes it
light and cheerful. Prof. Volk has sew
eral casts in the room, and the young
ladies have purchased some for their
own property. These are placed about
the room with an artistic arrangement,
and the place has the air of the studio
of a professional. The work of the
young ladies has been wholly in the
line of sketching from the casts, with
some attempt at making casts, and one
or two chat are real works of art are
placed about the room.
I'VE have live model, too, ;" went on
the Young lady, "who sits in that chair
several hours, and we are making
studies from life. I'll show him to you
if you'd like to see him. He's just get
ting his exercise"
The reporter said he would like to
meet the model, and the lady stepped
to the door and beckOned to man, ap-
parently forty odd years old. who had
been walking up and down the hall out
side
The man obeyed the summons as if
he were machine. to come when the
string was pulled, and entering the
room he stepped upon a little platform
and seated himself in a chair. Two or
three young ladies who were in the
room began apparently to make draw
ingS from the model, who sat in the
chair with features that had about the
same expression as those on cast of
PyrrhuS or some other ancient, fastened
to the wall opposite. He draws as his
salary. SO one of the ladies said, 40 cents
a sitting. and his face indicated that his
only idea was to earn his money, re-
gardleSS of the aesthetic, not to say 70
mantle. surroundings i'll which he did
this.
1t is the intention of the ladies to
begin work with the brush as well as
with pencil in short time. They also
propose to fit up the room more and
more and make it an attractive place.
where the young ladies may devote odd
hours to study whenever they wish.
I'VE want human skull" said the
young lady, just before the reporter
took his leave.
"A Skull?'
''YeS, skull: and we wouldn't mind
whole skeleton. Wewant to put it up
in the room here for a model. Where
could we get one, do you SUPPOSE"
The GLOBE man said that some medi-
cal student or young physician of the
city probably had one that he would be
willing to donate to the p9ung ladies for
the good of the cause, if he only knew
that such an article was wanted.